Ping higher for US Data center than other centers (picture of test results)

[Zholi]

Same location and ISP and results look, more or less, exactly the same here.

[Devilray]

Same location and ISP and results look, more or less, exactly the same here.

I'm chatting with Time Warner support and seeing if I get anything *crossing fingers*.

[Devilray]

Well, I talked with support and they said that lines 1-6 in the Tracert are Time Warner Cable. The rest represents the game server. They basically said it could be firewall on your router, but since I never had an issue till today, it is likely a game server issue and not firewall.

I asked specifically about throttling, and he said the game was not being throttled.

[tar-baby]

I wrote a really good article on testing your internet connection that wont fit.

Anyway here is your problem:
9 259 ms 246 ms 248 ms if-2-2.tcore1.LVW-LosAngeles.as6453.net [66.110.59.1]

That router is choking.

To test your connection tracert to your destination and then ping a hop close to you.
eg ping -n 100 <close hop>

You should get low pings and no packet loss.

Pinging elswher will only tell you there is a problem. You probably already know that.